Claim likely to cause widespread surprise in a country where the remote controlled aircraft are widely hated Just 67 civilians were killed by US drone strikes since 2008 according to figures released by Pakistan’s military. The figure...

MSNBC host Chris Hayes couldn’t contain his exasperation on Wednesday in discussing the implications for poor Americans if $5 billion is cut from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on Friday. “Fifteen percent of...

Advocates for the Oneida Indian Nation vowed to continue their efforts to get Washington D.C.’s NFL team to change its name following a meeting with the National Football League on Wednesday, ESPN reported. “We are very...

Boeing said Wednesday it would design its new 777X aircraft at five US sites and in Moscow but had made no decision about using its key Washington state facilities. Boeing Commercial Airplanes recently established multiple engineering design...

Fund managers, CalSTRS and PGGM of the Netherlands to press for a vote against Oracle’s executive pay policies A big UK pension fund is among a number of investors preparing to protest against the pay polices of the California-based...

The coldest place in the universe — just one degree above absolute zero, the temperatures at which all atoms freeze — is the Boomerang Nebula, astronomers in Chile said Wednesday. It is about 5,000 light years away in the Centaurus...

Without mentioning her by name, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) dismissed MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s questions surrounding his use of Wikipedia in campaign speeches in an interview with Fusion anchor Jorge Ramos on Wednesday. “Nothing I said...

Five large cannons from a sunken ship captained by the legendary pirate Blackbeard have been recovered by US archeologists, authorities confirmed Wednesday. The cannons were raised from the wreck of the Queen Anne’s Revenge, sunk off the...

President Dilma Rousseff and her predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday feted the 10th anniversary of a landmark welfare program that lifted 36 million Brazilians out of poverty. “Never have so many people been pulled out of...

A five-year-old boy was in critical condition Wednesday after falling off a boat in Disneyland Paris’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride, police and management said. Anne Chazareix, the police officer in charge of the probe into...

An Earth-sized planet far beyond our Solar System has been found to have a similar mass to our planet, said researchers Wednesday engaged in the hunt for other habitable worlds. While Kepler-78b is not a hospitable place, with surface...

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is pressing the Transportation Safety Authority (TSA) for answers following more than 20 complaints on behalf of disabled passengers concerning their treatment at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport. The...

Fears of Jamaican athletes been barred from taking part in international track and field events have been allayed following a two day extraordinary audit of the island?s drug testing policies by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) that ended on...

Scientists said Wednesday they had found evidence that SARS-like coronaviruses can jump straight from a type of Chinese bat to humans without the need for an intermediary animal “host”. The find has “enormous...